Sentence examples for narrow apartment from inspiring English sources

Now that they're in, they seem thrilled with their long, narrow apartment, despite some of its disadvantages.

The hallway in the long, narrow apartment in Washington Heights is kept dark most of the time, to save on energy bills.

Yesterday, as relatives gathered in the narrow apartment where hours earlier she cradled her dying child, Ms. Ghunney rocked back and forth slowly on her sofa and began making funeral arrangements for the youngest of her six children.

Whether the rain-spattered alleys and narrow apartment house corridors of Hong Kong in the 1960s — the setting for "In the Mood for Love" and parts of "2046" — are faithful historical re-creations is beyond irrelevant.

Here, in this narrow apartment in Harlem where pictures of the Virgin Mary adorn the walls, the most important object might just be a spiral-bound notebook that Greg Aparicio and his son, Chris, share.

Dickens found his Britannia cabin dark and cramped, "a thoroughly hopeless, and profoundly preposterous box", while the bleak saloon was "a long narrow apartment, not unlike a gigantic hearse".

I would simply steal the box from its oven storage place, finish off the contents in my bedroom and toss the empty box out the third-story window into the narrow apartment-house garden below.

Our taxi sped through streets crammed with busy shops and implausibly narrow apartments built above them, one room wide.

The family's long, narrow Madrid apartment is a tunnel of doziness.

One Friday morning, outside a mosque in the working-class neighborhood of Narmak, where Ahmadinejad grew up, I met a young man who rented a narrow basement apartment.

They now live and work in a narrow Beijing apartment, drilling holes in carrots, marrows, lotus roots and Chinese yams and testing the pitch against an old electronic tuner -- nibbling silently on the shavings all the while.